Historical nonsense underpins UK’s Brexit floundering. From Hastings to Dunkirk a past that blinds Britain to reality has been peddled

The Museum of British Colonialism

| 25 September 2018

AN EXPLORATION OF BRITISH COLONIALISM The Museum of British Colonialism has been realised to creatively communicate a more truthful account of British colonialism. We have a documentary and a pilot exhibition in the works and will use this site to gather, share, present and comment on material and r...

As Glasgow University owns up to slavery wealth, others urged to follow

Dennis Heaney 40th Anniversary - statement from family

10th June 1978- 2018 | 06 June 2018

The family of Dennis Heaney (21), shot dead on the streets of his home town Derry by under-cover soldiers of the British Army’s 14th Intelligence Company (a cover name for the SAS) on 10th June 1978. A series of events to remember Dennis on the 40th anniversary have been arranged by the Heaney famil...

Britain should stop trying to pretend that its empire was benevolent

May 13, 2016 | 10 October 2018

Interesting 2016 article from Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex on Britain's attitude to empire and the racist underpinnings of the view that the empire was benevolent. Published in The Conversation.

Breaking the silence on partition and British Colonial history (Published 31 July 2017)

Reflections 70 years after the partition of the Indian sub-continent | 11 October 2018

Many British south Asian families were caught up in the violence of 1947 when Britain partitioned India. Seventy years on, some are telling their stories for the first time. Kavita Puri is the editor of Our World and presenter of Partition Voices on BBC Radio 4

5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after ‘historical amnesia’ claims

Samuel Osborne, The Independent | 06 March 2017

The British people suffer "historical amnesia" over the atrocities committed by their former empire , an Indian MP and author has claimed. Former UN under-secretary general Dr Shashi Tharoor said the British education system fails to tell the real story of empire .

The PFC will oppose proposals in a report from the Westminster Defence Select Committee which recommends the protection from prosecution of British soldiers and RUC personnel, regardless of the evidence against them. This "Statue of Limitations", while coupled with a "truth recovery mechanism", woul...